Happiness is Realizing How Much Better Things Are Now
Not in general; my country is still going down the tubes because it’s being run by heartless morons, but for me personally, it’s better. One of the keys: self-publishing. I was reminded of this when Chirp put an old audio of mine on sale, Trust Me On This. There’s a lot of back story attached to that book, but the one that always comes back to me is about when the publisher showed me the book cover.
“That’s not going to work,” I said. “There’s no dog in this book.”
“Books with dogs on the covers sell better,” they said.
“But there’s no dog in the book,” I said, “so it’s misleading. Readers are going to be annoyed.”
“Books with dogs on the covers sell better,” they said.
“BUT THERE’S NO DAMN DOG IN THE BOOK!” I said.
“Do you want to do a final edit on the galleys?” they said.
“Yes,” I said, and rewrote the damn book to put a dog in it.
Have I mentioned how much self-publishing (with Bob doing all the work) makes me happy?
What made you happy this week? Was there a dog in it?
